HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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What pull factors attracted European Jews to Eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages?
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Jews were attracted to Eastern Europe because they could practice Judaism there without persecution.
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Jews were attracted to countries like Poland for its rich farmland.
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Jews were attracted by the more healthful climate of Eastern Europe.
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Jews were attracted by the open frontier that still existed in Eastern Europe.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -As a result of persecution, expulsions and massacres carried out by the Crusaders, Jews gradually migrated to Central and Eastern Europe, settling in Poland, Lithuania, and Russia, where they found greater security and a renewal of prosperity.
Detailed explanation-2: -It seems that they came to Germany and France from Italy [5-8]. It is also possible that some Jews migrated northward from the Italian colonies on the northern shore of the Black Sea [9]. All these Jews are likely the descendents of proselytes. Conversion to Judaism was common in Rome in the first centuries BC and AD.
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